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VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by geofft »

I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by mxd3 »

geofft wrote: post #4

I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?

Lots of small business as well. Want to deploy to the cloud but lack the skill set to manage a real server.

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by Ascetik »

geofft wrote: post #4

I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?

I thought that myself for awhile, but then I downloaded one of their images for a particular stack I was looking for for a project and it was just easier to implement the bitnami stack preloaded with everything then run sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y. It honestly saved me a good bit of time configuring the stack.

Re: VMware to Acquire Bitnami

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Post by alexandernst »

geofft wrote: post #4

I feel like I've never understood why I'd want to use Bitnami as opposed to ... just installing software. From the post, it sort of seems like the target audience is companies that have developers and "enterprise IT" (who are probably overworked and simultaneously tasked with maintaining AD and Google Apps) but no UNIX-specific sysadmin/SRE/build engineering staff?

You're missing the point of what Bitnami actually does. Bitnami isn't helping "enterprise IT" to install Wordpress. They are helping AWS/GCP/Azure/etc... to attract more users with less effort. It's kind of "hey, random guy that has no idea how to install Wordpress! Do you want to get a Wordpress up and running in in less than a minute?".

Edit: look at the comment right after mine. Perfect proof.

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